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Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease

British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease. The physicist and cosmologist was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease when he was a 21-year-old student at Cambridge University. Most people die within a few years of the diagnosis, called motor neurone disease in the U.K. On Sunday, Hawking will turn 70.

Senh: It's probably because he keeps himself mentally alert.

 

Stephen Hawking: Heaven is "a fairy story"

Stephen Hawking: Heaven is

Physicist Stephen Hawking believes there is no afterlife, and that the concept of heaven is a "fairy story" for people who fear death.

 

Famed Physicist Stephen Hawking Rushed to Hospital

Famed Physicist Stephen Hawking Rushed to Hospital

Eminent scientist said to be very ill in Cambridge hospital.

 

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